Analysis of US Law for creation of intellectual property (Patents & Copyrights) from an offshore location.

Drafting of Correspondance (Introduction & follow-up letters) to an International Five Star Hotel requesting change of Business Terms of existing service contract due to unforseen contingency situations.

Advisory assistance in detailed review and preparation of Right To Information (RTI) Applications to various government and other statutory organizations in various public and civic matters at municipal and state government levels.

Advisory assistance to a garment apparel exporter concerning database theft by an employee for a competitor.

Online Checking with Electric Utility & Regulatory Authorities Of Validity of Propery Ownership Documents Submitted by Landlord for Renting Of Flat for Housing Accomodation in Pune.

Industry - IT

Interactions with the Tax Regulatory Authorities at different levels and Advisory Inputs on Various Legal Matters in the areas of Direct and Indirect Taxes - Income Tax, Service Tax, Fringe Benefit Tax, Sales Tax, Works Contract Tax, VAT, Provident Fund, Professional Tax, Employee Welfare Tax.

Research of Intangible Assets - Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Service Marks Related to Proprietary Organizational Resources in India and the US.

Monitoring of different kinds of software patents being issued in the US in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Database, Data Processing, Internet, Java, etc.

Validity of Email as a legally Binding Contract Document Is an email a valid contract document under Indian laws ?

Kaytek recently answered the above query from one of our customers (A Cargo Clearing & Forwarding Company based in Mumbai).

The law governing this is The Information Technology (IT)
Act, 2000. As per this law, email is a valid and legal form
of communication in our country that can be duly produced and
approved in a court of law.

Chapter-III (Point 4, Page 5) of the above Act details
about Electronic Governance and provides inter alia amongst
others that
" where any law provides that information or any other matter
shall be in writing or in the typewritten or printed form, then,
notwithstanding anything contained in such law, such requirement
shall be deemed to have been satisfied if such information or
matter is -

(a) rendered or made available in an electronic form; and

(b) accessible so as to be usable for a subsequent reference "

Chapter IV of the above Act (Point 11, Page 6) also talks
about 'Attribution, Acknowledgement and Despatch of Electronic
Records' in some level of detail and definitions.

Specific details of all electronic communication within a specific business contract may need to be known
to ascertain whether they satisfy all the requirements of the IT
Act 2000.